At the fancy food show. Eating for free all day. Thanks Geneve!
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Lisa, Ginny and Ben, at Otto’s Shrunken Head.
Duane Ready?
Yesterday I phoned a presecription refill in to Duane Reade’s automated phone system. It took less than a minute to do that.
Today, I walked into my local Duane Reade and went to the pharmacy area. There was no line, and no employees were talking on the phone or otherwise ignoring customers. I gave my last name, got the bag with the correct prescription in it, swiped my credit card, signed the book, and walked out.
I must’ve been there less than two minutes, and left with exactly what I wanted, with and no hassle or headache. In six years living in New York and countless trips to Duane Reade, I’ve never had such a smooth experience.
I fear that all this will do is raise my expectations, leading to a frustrating experience next time I wait in line for one cashier behind twelve people.
Christmas In July, graphic by Trawin
There seems to be no end to the brilliant e-commerce promotions that the BustedTees team can come up with. I’m consistently impressed by these, and am almost as excited about what original promotion they’ll do next as I am about what their latest original t-shirt jokes are going to be.
The number on the left, X, is how many times Kevin Corrigan would see The Love Guru in a row if I paid him $Y, on the right.
If anybody feels like chipping in, let me know. I also have to pay for the tickets.
Kevin’s willing to see the Love Guru the first five times for $100, or $20 each. The movie is approximately 90 minutes, so that’s $13.33 /hr that he’s willing to earn to watch a movie, plus the gained opportunity cost of $12 per viewing (less if he just stays in the theatre to sneak into consecutive viewings, but then there’s lag time between views) that he doesn’t have to pay to buy the ticket.
After the first five viewings, Kevin’s viewing enjoyment has a steep diminishing return, and his price for viewing goes up to $50 per view, or $33.33 /hr, which is equivalent to a $66,000 annual salary.
brand tags
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A collective experiment in brand perception. The more often a word is used to describe the brand, the bigger the word is displayed. Pretty cool. (via dihard)
I would love to see a feature on this that tracks the size (popularity, frequency) of each word for a brand over time. This would be the ultimate zeitgeist trend meter for any brand manager. One could track the success of an ad campaign, or be alerted to negative red flags.
Eposides of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” are now on Hulu, but aren’t available in Canada, where I am this week. :(
Fire at Universal destroys Back To The Future set
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(via caseydonahue)
I’m glad I got to see this when I was a kid
It makes me sad that I never got to see this set. I didn’t know it was even still there. Had I, I would have gone on one of my visits to L.A.
The Hill Valley Courthouse set was also featured in a much lesser known film, my 1992 parody, “Back to the Super”.
The cashier supervisor at Whole Foods on Houston is apparently a big fan of Alan Greenspan. Who woulda thought?
Steph gave me this framed print for my going away present. It’s me as an Ottawa Senator celebrating a goal on the leafs. Awesome. Thanks Steph!!